Monthly Archives: January 2009

Bike advocacy during times of declining budgets

Mark Stosberg lists some good, inexpensive ideas that have worked for him in Richmond, Indiana.

Velocouture blog

Patrick started the popular Velocouture group — a collection of cyclists with their stylish clothing — on Flickr a while back. To “make 2009 the year of Vélocouture,” he started the Velocouture blog (style that moves you) to discuss riding bikes with your clothes on and highlighting some of the more interesting photos posted to read more »

Another Twitter cyclist giveaway

But it’s not me, it’s UltraRob. He’ll pick a winner at random for everybody who enters the contest by 8 PM U.S. Mountain Time tonight. Peak chicken? What I Saw At the Inauguration: The traffic was so bad, and so chaotically handled, that everyone had a story. Mine: Stuck for more than an hour near read more »

Bicycle Design winner

James and his team of celebrity judges have selected a winner for their bicycle design contest. Torkel Dohmer wins a Cannondale Bad Boy 700 bicycle for his efforts, which is a way better prize than the stickers and doodads I’ve been handing out! The discussion on how the judges selected the winning entry is pretty read more »

Rapha Continental tour of California

Rapha, the British manufacturer of especially stylish cycling clothing, sponsors a Continental team that runs promotional rides in the U.S. Last August I had the opportunity to ride with the Continentals on the Page Mill-Pescadero-Tunitas loop and to watch the epic film Road to Roubaix afterwards at Palo Alto Bicycles. (The “chatty woman” is me read more »

Does this look like me?

Carl in Longmont, Colorado says this looks like me. This illustration is from the “winter” collection by artist Yuzuriha Satoshi in Tokyo, Japan. This illustration entitled “Koshu Kaido / Inume” shows a stop along the old “Koshu Highway.” Satoshi-san is probably a randonneur. Many of his prints illustrate what a long distance cyclist may see read more »